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2017 News

November 11: New 50mm Astrodon BVRI filters where installed in one Optec IFW filter wheel. A second IFW contains LRGB and clear filters. Eventually both filter wheels will be accessible at the same time, but that requires a special driver to be written.

March 11: Image processing features were added and all programs synced up with BGO.

January 14: Last week it was at magnitude 16.5, then a few days ago, it flared up by about 40 times its normal brightness (the nova part) to magnitude 12.5, which it does every year or two.

If that isn't enough excitement, either the mass depositing or receiving star eclipses the other as it orbits every ~100 minutes and this causes a short drop in brightness for about 10 minutes.